The JoT House is stripped-down, clean, modernist, open-planned, natural light filled, inexpensive and cool. For around $100 per square foot, you can have one of three different models. Two are pretty spacious. The JoT original and the JoT L are 1,344 and 1,500 square feet, respectively. The Mini-JoT is just 128 square feet, which is perfect for a little studio, getaway, guest-room, whatever.
Rooms are separated by movable partitions making it easy to convert from a 1-bedroom loft to a 3-bedroom house. The JoT design provides for an air-tight design, which greatly reduces heating and air conditioning costs and also reduces any potential for mold to rear its ugly head. The birch plywood walls are sustainable harvested while the passive solar design takes advantage of the sun in the winter and shade in the summer. Construction is pretty simple...combining prefab components with custom flexibility. The central core of the structure is prefab...shipped to the site intact. The exterior is made up of a bunch of insulated lightweight structural panels that are easy to put together. Total assembly time can take as little as a couple of weeks.
++JoT House [website]
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Posted by: Luis | August 17, 2007 at 10:31 AM
Interesting,....Du you have more design and picture..?
Posted by: Nanang P B | November 26, 2008 at 11:47 PM